Amerind Free Online Lecture: Origins of Maya Civilization Examined at Aguada Fénix, Mexico with Takeshi Inomata, PhD

Amerind Free Online Lecture

Origins of Maya Civilization Examined at Aguada Fénix, Mexico

with Takeshi Inomata, PhD, University of Arizona

Saturday, June 3, 2023, 11:00 am – Arizona Time

 

The talk will discuss recent findings from the site of Aguada Fénix, Mexico, which was discovered in 2018.

Its central platform, which measures 1400 x 400 m horizontally and 10-15 m in height and was built around 1000 BC, is the largest and oldest monumental building in the Maya area.

The results of investigations at this site are changing our understanding of how the Maya civilization and surrounding societies developed.

 

Takeshi Inomata, PhD, is a professor at the School of Anthropology, University of Arizona.

He has been investigating social changes in the Maya area through field projects at Aguateca and Ceibal in Guatemala and in the Middle Usumacinta region of Mexico.

 

To register visit: https://bit.ly/Amerindonline06032023Inomata

 

 

American Indian Voices in Horse Histories with Kelsey Dayle John, PhD (Diné)

 

Free Online Lecture

American Indian Voices in Horse Histories with Kelsey Dayle John, PhD (Diné)

Saturday, March 13, 2021, 11:00 am – Arizona Time

Kelsey John, PhD (Diné) will explore several aspects of horse origin stories through a Native American lens. Using a critical view of place and the more than human world, she highlights some important misconceptions about how we view the horse’s history in relationship with other narratives about Indians, lands, and the settlement of the Americas. In her work, Kelsey discusses the importance of viewing horses as agents, persons, and teachers who have something to say about their own histories.

Kelsey Dayle John, PhD (Diné) is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in American Indian Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies. Her work is centered on animal relationalities, particularly horse/human relationships as ways of knowing, healing, and decolonizing education. Alongside her work in Indigenous animal studies, Kelsey’s research interests also include: Indigenous feminisms, decolonizing methodologies, and Tribal College and Universities. She finds her theoretical locations within transnational feminism, Indigenous studies, settler colonial studies, Diné Studies, and foundations of education.

This online lecture is free, but space is limited. To register visit: http://bit.ly/AmerindOnline031321

Free Online Lecture – Far from Isolated: Resilience and Adaptation Among the Rarámuri in the 20th Century with José Miguel Chávez Leyva

 

Free Online Lecture

Far from Isolated: Resilience and Adaptation Among the Rarámuri in the 20th Century with José Miguel Chávez Leyva, PhD Candidate, University of Texas at El Paso

Saturday, February 20, 2021, 11:00 am – Arizona Time

The Rarámuri (Tarahumara) have traditionally been viewed as a group that retreated into the mountains and canyons of Chihuahua, fighting outside influence with isolation. This ignores the ways that the Rarámuri have responded to the multiple intrusions to their territory over the course of the 20th century. From fighting in the Mexican Revolution to working as railroad laborers, the Rarámuri have never shied away from participating in a society that has branded them as primitive. This lecture will explore some of the rich tapestry of Rarámuri history, looking at ways in which they have actively worked to preserve their way of life from the turn of the century through the 1970s.

José Miguel Chávez Leyva is a Ph.D. candidate in Borderlands History at the University of Texas at El Paso. His research is centered on the environmental ethnohistory of the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts, and how Indigenous peoples in these regions have maintained their identities despite outside pressures from the colonial era to modern times.

This online program is free, but space is limited. To register visit: https://bit.ly/AmerindOnline022021

Free Online Lecture: The Navajo Nation and the COVID-19 Pandemic with Jennifer Nez Denetdale, PhD (Diné)

 

Free Online Lecture

The Navajo Nation and the COVID-19 Pandemic with Jennifer Nez Denetdale, PhD (Diné)

Saturday, January 9, 2021, 11:00 am – Arizona Time

Amerind welcomes University of New Mexico Professor Jennifer Nez Denetdale (Diné) as she examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic upon the Navajo Nation.  As the first-ever Diné (Navajo) to earn a PhD in history, Denetdale is a strong advocate for Native peoples and strives to foster academic excellence in the next generation of students interested in Indigenous Studies. Denetdale is a Professor of American Studies and teaches courses in Critical Indigenous Studies, Indigenous gender and sexuality, Indigenous feminisms and gender, and Navajo Studies.

This online program is free, but space is limited. To register visit: https://bit.ly/AmerindOnline010921